This year for the first time the Combined Charities Drive will cover Radcliffe as well as Harvard. Previously, Radcliffe girls have only been exposed to the mild soliciting techniques of a low-pressure charities campaign; this time they will have to face up to the tradition hard sell of the Harvard drive.

Yet the Combined Charities Drive Committee seems strangely pessimistic about how well Radcliffe will respond to the methods which have been so effective at Harvard. Last year it set a goal of $24,000 on the assumption that each of 4,800 Harvard students would contribute $5. This year 6,000 Harvard and Radcliffe students will be asked for donations, but the Committee has set a goal of only $25,000--$5 from each Harvard man and a little more than $1 from each Radcliffe girl.

Students at Radcliffe are no poorer than those at Harvard, and they are just as much members of a university community that is supposed to be responsible to the society around it. If they are to be in the Combined Charities Drive at all, they ought to be in it all the way, and the goal of this year's drive ought to be $30,000.